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[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

I want to learn more about sewing. I am especially interested in the idea of creating gender-variant clothes. When men wear dresses and when women wear suits (whether they were born to that sex or not, as I am finding out from personal experience) they are often stuck with the choice of having something that's either ill-fitting or padding and tightening their body to fit. What about making dresses that are made to fit the male body and work with its shape? What about suits that are made to fit on, and work for, women? No style changes. No shoulder pads and giant buttons on women's suits. No... well there aren't really dresses for men (at least not that I'm aware of) so I'm not sure what to put here.

This has applications for transsexual gender-normative people as well. And cissexed/cisgender people whose bodies don't exactly fit the mold (whaddya mean you have AA breasts? whaddya mean you're 5'5"?).

Dose anyone know of any kind of gender-variant fashion archive? Haircuts would be good too.

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[bloodykitty.livejournal.com]

i am also learning to sew because i'm tired of ill-fitting clothes. so far i don't know anything about how to do it. i think i'm going to take classes.